Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v20i2.2752
Satisfaction of Basic Psychological Needs and Autonomous Motivation in School Context: A Test of Additive, Synergistic, and Balance Hypotheses
Saule Raiziene
; Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Psychology
Ingrida Gabrialaviciute
; Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Psychology
Renata Garckija
orcid.org/0000-0001-5991-6089
; Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Psychology
Gintautas Silinskas
; University of Jyväskylä, Department of Psychology
Abstract
The present study examined the influence of the three basic psychological needs on autonomous motivation in educational settings in the light of additive, synergistic, and balance hypotheses. Participants were 679 high school students (Mage = 16.16, 49.3% girls). The findings supported the additive hypothesis: all three needs had unique effects on autonomous motivation. The synergistic hypothesis was only partially supported: one two-way interaction between autonomy and competence had effect on autonomous motivation. A high level of satisfaction of the need for autonomy led to autonomous motivation regardless of satisfaction of the need for competence. However, competence was positively related to autonomous motivation only when the need for autonomy was low. The balance hypothesis was also supported: balance in needs satisfaction had a significant effect in addition to additive and synergistic effects.
Keywords
educational settings; need for autonomy; need for competence; need for relatedness; self-determination theory
Hrčak ID:
204133
URI
Publication date:
28.6.2018.
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